Places joannemilne Wants to Go

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A faded reminder of what was once a common sight in London during the Blitz.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.